Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, January 13, 2017 05:33:07 Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:02:38 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > I don't see how it possibly could given how dynamic arrays work in D. It > > would have to have some sort of

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, January 12, 2017 21:57:37 Andrew Browne via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 19:22:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > > wrote: > > We release a brief Vision document summarizing the main goals > > we plan to pursue in the coming six months. This half we are

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:02:38 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I don't see how it possibly could given how dynamic arrays work in D. It > would have to have some sort of reference counting mechanism, which > would likely be a nightmare with slicing On that topic, D's

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Andrew Browne via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 19:22:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We release a brief Vision document summarizing the main goals we plan to pursue in the coming six months. This half we are focusing on three things: safety, lifetime management, and static introspection.

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Mark via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 00:15:23 UTC, Seb wrote: On Saturday, 7 January 2017 at 23:33:45 UTC, Benjiro wrote: Maybe something to add ( for new users ) is something similar to: http://rustbyexample.com/ Easy to use, lots of information, simple tasks that involve interaction for the user,

Re: Alexa Skill written in D

2017-01-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 19:26:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/11/2017 2:09 AM, Chris wrote: On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 22:54:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Yes. I can't because anything I post gets autobanned. Why is that? Probably because I posted links to articles I wrote

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 09:54:08 UTC, Mark wrote: I think the "D for C++ programmers" page could use a revamp: https://dlang.org/cpptod.html At the moment it mainly explains where and how D differs from C++. Whoever reads it may be ready to write C++ code in D, but this seems

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Guillaume Chatelet via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 January 2017 at 15:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/04/2017 08:06 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: C++ integration has disappeared? Is this now "done"? We have a student on that. I've added a line for that to the doc. -- Andrei I did a lot of work on C++ name mangling